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Show 1885.] DURING THE VOYAGE OF THE YACHT ' MARCHESA.' 655 h-k. Jr. 2 • Marchesa Bay. I. Jr. 8. Chabrol Bay, Waigiou. m. 3 . Waigiou. Iris brown, of female greyish brown ; bill black, tip of upper mandible brownish ; feet and legs bright blue, darker in the female. Inside of mouth bright greenish yellow in both sexes. Length, exclusive of long rectrices, 18*5-20*0 centims., wing 9*4-9*8. Shot in October and November. Malay name Kapala kruis (Cross-head). The bare occipital patch is of the brightest imaginable blue during life ; the figure in Gould's ' Birds of N e w Guinea ' gives no notion of the extreme brilliancy of the colouring .of this part. In the female and young male it is not quite so bright. It begins to fade almost immediately after death, is quite dull in four or five hours, and by next day the skin is as black as in a long-shot specimen. The curved tail-feathers also seem to lose their colour, contrary to what is usually the case in plumes of metallic colouring. Before fading they are of a bright steely purple. The immature male differs in no way from the female. Of the change of plumage to the adult dress, I can, however, give no information. The species occurred to us most commonly at the east end of Batanta, but it was far from abundant. It frequented hills of about 1000 feet in height, at a distance of about half a mile from the sea. 164. CICINNURUS REGIUS (Linn.). Cicinnurus regius, Salvad. op. cit. vol. ii. p. 646. a, b. 8 • Arfak. c-f. 8 • Andai. g-l. Jr. 8- " N e w Guinea." m-o. 3. Salwatti. p. 2 • Salwatti. q. Jr. 3. Salwatti. r-r'. 8 . Mysol. s'-g". Jr. 8. Mysol. h"-l". 2- Mysol. m"-q". 8- Jobi. r"-t". Jr. 8. Jobi. u". 2- Jobi. v"-b'". Mysol. Iris brown ; bill yellowish horn-colour, becoming quite yellow in the dried skin, in the female and young male brownish ; legs and feet bright blue, somewhat duller in the female ; inside of mouth bright yellowish green. Total length, not including median rectrices, 17*0-19*4 centim., of females and young males 19*0-21*0, the larger measurements depending on the greater length of the tail in the latter. Wing 9*8-10*4 centims. Native name among the hunters of the Rajah Ampat, Kepin-kepin. In the large series obtained on the ' Marchesa's' cruise, of which the above are a portion only, the various changes in the plumage |